Submitted by Eleanor G

Here’s one vaccine no one minded getting: the oral polio vaccine. Every time any child in the early ‘60’s got a shot, they wondered, through their tears, why ALL of them couldn’t be done this way. The doctors never had a good answer for that, either.

Submitted by Tim C

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Destruction Derby is a 1995 video game developed by Reflections and published by Psygnosis, the former of which would later develop the successful Driver series. It was released for PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and MS-DOS (PC). Based around the real-life sport of demolition derby driving, the game involves wrecking other cars for points, or driving a simple stock car race around one of five tracks. Though simplistic in its aims, the game achieved popularity and was one of the first games to achieve platinum sales on the PlayStation console.[citation needed] The game was given a name change just two months prior to its release on October, 1995. It was originally called Demolish ‘em Derby [1]

Submitted by Candace C

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One line of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, the Cabbage Patch Kids Snacktime Kids, was designed to “eat” plastic snacks. The mechanism enabling this was a pair of one-way metal rollers behind a plastic slot and rubber lips, and the plastic snacks would exit the doll’s back into a backpack. The dolls did not have an on-off switch and the mechanism was activated by putting the plastic snacks, or potentially other objects, between the lips and into the slot. The dolls were popular during Christmas 1996.

The line was voluntarily withdrawn from the market following an agreement between Mattel and the Consumer Product Safety Commission in January 1997 following several incidents where children got their fingers or hair stuck in the doll’s mouth, which led to safety warnings from Connecticut’s consumer protection commissioner, Mark Shiffrin.[2]

Submitted by Candace C

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Sky Dancers is the name of a line of toys that were popular in the mid-1990s. The toys were constructed of a pull-string base and a doll with foam wings. When the doll was inserted into the base and the string pulled, the doll would launch into the air, spinning its wings like a propeller as it flew. Five characters were created: Jade, Camille, Breeze, Angelica, and Slam.

The toys were launched during the 1994 Christmas and holiday season and were an instant hit. While its foam wings provided a limited amount of safety, nonetheless, there were over 100 injuries reported. Galoob, the manufacturer of the toys, recalled them in June 2000 after less than six years on the market. The toys were re-released in 2006 with an adapted design.

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Submitted by C Carlson

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The weepul (also known as a weeple, wuppie, or wuppet) is a small, spherical, fluffy toy, with large, plastic googly eyes, and no limbs. Weepuls come in various different colors. Usually weepuls possess antennae and also large paper feet, with an adhesive layer on the bottom, which, protected by a layer of plastic that is peeled off before deployment.

According to Rick Ebel, the weepul was created in 1979 by the Oklahoma City promotional firm, Bipo Inc. It was named by customer Tom Blundell after a stuffed doll his parents had tried and failed to market several years earlier. Blundell figured the little-people stick-on would only be a flash in the pan, “but it just got a life to it, and it still isn’t ready to die.”

Submitted by May F

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The Boy Who Could Fly is a 1986 film written and directed by Nick Castle. The film was produced by Lorimar Productions for 20th Century Fox, and originally released to movie theatres in August 14, 1986.

Submitted by Amy H

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Drop Dead Fred is a 1991 comedy film directed by Ate de Jong, produced by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films and released and distrubuted by New Line Cinema. Although touted as a light-hearted children’s film, there are notable adult themes and gags, with elements of black comedy and gross out humor, and some profanity.

Submitted by Courtney F

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Bébé’s Kids (released to VHS and DVD as Robin Harris’ Bébé’s Kids) is an animated feature produced by the Hudlin Brothers and Hyperion Pictures, directed by Bruce W. Smith, and released on July 31. 1992 by Paramount Pictures. The first ever animated feature to feature an all-Black main cast, the film is based upon comedian Robin Harris’ “Bébé’s Kids” stand-up comedy act. It features the voices of Faizon Love, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Marques Houston, Nell Carter, and Tone-Loc. Tom Everett, Rich Little and Louie Anderson also lend their voices. The movie plays on BET on occasion as of 2009.

Submitted by Elizabeth W

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Two young brothers escape their chaotic family life with dreams of flying. Inspired by a local legend, they attempt to build a working airplane. And in the process of transforming their ordinary red wagon into a fantastical flying machine, transform their own lives into an extraordinary adventure. “The King” (father) always beat the younger brother instead of the older one when he was drunk, causing the older one to care for the younger one a lot more. The mother, has no idea about this abuse.